2021 Fall AMC 10B Problems/Problem 7
Problem
Call a fraction 
, not necessarily in the simplest form special if 
and 
are positive integers whose sum is 
. How many distinct integers can be written as the sum of two, not necessarily different, special fractions?
Solution
Listing out all special fractions, we get:
{
}
Simplifying and grouping based on their denominators gives
{
}, {
}, {
}
Note all other special fractions have denominators that no other special fraction has, and therefore cannot be added with another special fraction to produce an integer. Furthermore, integers can only be produced by adding in these groupings because the denominators are equal so they could simplify to a denominator of 1 after being added. By simple inspection, the integers that can be expressed as the sum of two special fractions are:
{28, 18, 16, 8, 6, 4, 1, 2, 7, 3, 13}
And there are 11 of them, or 
~KingRavi
Video Solution by Interstigation
https://youtu.be/p9_RH4s-kBA?t=810
See Also
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